The CGT federation of the energy sector has called for a national strike for wages on Monday June 20, in order to put pressure on employers who will start new negotiations that day with the unions.
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The FNME-CGT calls on all active and retired workers to act forcefully, including on the work tool, so that the negotiations expected on Monday June 20 can make up for the delay in the SNB (basic national salary)
”, indicates the CGT in a leaflet distributed on Wednesday.
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The FNME-CGT will support all actions in favor of the interests of workers and retirees attacked on their salaries and their pensions
", adds the branch union.
On June 2, during a previous national day of action very followed by the whole sector, then at the call of all the main union federations, several power cuts in RTE substations deprived of electricity tens of thousands of homes, mainly in Pas-de-Calais and the city of Angers.
Towards new cuts?
The manager of high voltage lines RTE, where the anger is particularly strong, has been experiencing a strike by its agents for more than three months, in particular for this question of taking inflation into account in wages.
The occurrence of new cuts will depend “
on the proposals that will be put on the table
”, estimated Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT.
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What we hope is that it is not a negotiation that will last over time and that they will arrive with concrete proposals and worthy of the expectations of the employees
”, he added, describing this new day. to strike as a "
surveillance of this negotiation
".
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I think that on Monday there will be mobilization and demonstrations, anger, pressure from pickets everywhere in production, distribution, transport, unlike last week , things are already being organised
,” concluded Fabrice Coudour.
Contacted by AFP, other trade union federations indicated that they were not calling a strike on June 20, waiting to see how this negotiation session unfolded.
